If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.